We all know that the Metrodome’s biggest tenants were the Vikings and Twins — and even the Timberwolves for a season. But it also housed monster truck rallies, rollerbladers and other events over its 32-year lifetime. MPR News photographer Amanda Snyder visited the ‘dome for a few of its final events.

the thing that SHOULD have happened was to see a Superbowl ring/win from the Vikings in the last 30 years, but sadly they couldn’t produce one. Let’s hope the outdoor stadium will invoke the days of the Purple People Eaters and the tough Vikings… not these climate-controlled Vikings who have done worse since the dome opened in 1982.

heirloomtomato

It’s not an outdoor stadium. It is a stadium with a partially retractable roof.

el jefe

wow, quite the informed bunch we have here…

heirloomtomato

Are you high? The guy is “hoping” so he is referencing the future not the past. So he’s discussing the NEW stadium to be built which, last I checked, isn’t an entirely OUTDOOR stadium, it has a sunroof or some bs.

Why would someone be referencing a stadium from 40 years ago that was demolished a long time ago?

Chris Rathbun

tomato, I think you misunderstood. I was talking about the TCF stadium that the Vikings will be playing in the next few years. I hope it toughens up the Vikings to what they were back in the sixties when they played outside.

I don’t know enough about the new stadium’s architecture, but I do know it was a waste of money and a hand out to millionaires and the NFL by people who barely earn a fraction of what the Viking’s owner and the NFL take in each year.